Man Charged With Causing Fatal Hammond Motorcycle Crash
CHICAGO (STMW) -- A man has been charged with being intoxicated when he caused a crash that left a motorcyclist dead Wednesday night in northwest Indiana.
Matthew Kallen, 34, was charged with two felony counts of causing death while operating a motor vehicle and four misdemeanor counts of operating a vehicle under the influence, according to Hammond police and the Lake County state's attorney's office.
The crash happened at 8:15 p.m. Wednesday at Grand Avenue and 147th Street, according to a police report.
Kallen was driving a 1995 red Toyota Tercel northbound on Grand Avenue when he turned left into an alley and struck a motorcycle heading southbound on Grand, according to the report.
The motorcyclist, 48-year-old Robert J. Nawrocki of Hammond, was thrown from the bike and killed, according to the report.
Kallen, of Munster, Ind., was ordered held on a $25,000 bond Thursday at the Lake County Jail.
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